Why we pay less for art made by women

A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction this week, with experts valuing it between $40 and $60 million. While these are hefty price tags, they are ...
The Conversation

‘No woman could paint’: The Story of Art Without Men corrects nearly 600 years of male-focused art criticism

Edwina Preston has received funding for her own creative work from Australia Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria. She is the recipient of a Research Training Scholarship and Dean's Excellence ...
WCBD

All-female muralist group painting across the Lowcountry

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- A cold wind blowing through cloudy skies on Rivers Avenue doesn’t stop Allison Dunavant’s day at work. The Lowcountry muralist is painting the side of an historic ...
KRDO

Marlene Dumas painting sets new record for living female artist

(CNN) — A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands 9.25 ...
abc27

For a group of Ukrainian women, painting is a form of therapy to help them cope with loss

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a sunlit art studio ...
NPR

Iconic female artist's lost painting is found, hundreds of years after it was created

The painting once enjoyed pride of place, hanging in a queen's chambers. Then centuries of varnish, overpaint and dirt obscured not only the work but also its artist. The layers of history have now ...
Washington Examiner

When they let women paint

Yet Paris was called the City of Light. It was home to cultural bastions such as the Louvre and to artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul ...